For some reason my batch of beer came out flat, it's been in the bottles 5 weeks now and still is flat. I read somewhere that a troubleshoot for that could be to uncap the bottles and use carbonation drops afterwards. We put one drop in the first bottle and almost half the beer foamed out of the bottle. Has anyone had this problem and tried this solution or know of any others? At this point we have uncapped all the bottles and then recapped them for storage until we can figure out what to do.
Carbonation problem
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The explosive foam was due to the nucleation sites provided by the carbonation drop. It's like a Mentos Bomb.
Has this batch of bottles ever been chilled?
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No, the whole batch hasn't been chilled, we were waiting for the beer to carbonate before we chill them as to not stop the process prematurely. We place one in the fridge to cool it at a time until the beer is ready to drink, then we put 4 or 5 in at a time. Any ideas how to carbonate the beer from here?
If a priming tab emptied half a bottle of beer, it sure sounds like there was plenty of CO2 in the bottle, just looking for some cold brew to absorb it.
Five weeks is at least four weeks longer than it takes for yeast to gobble up the priming sugar and turn it into CO2, and most of that sits in the head space. What takes time is for the brew to absorb the gas, and it does that a whole lot better in a fridge than in a closet...
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